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title: Introduction
description: Learn how to build powerful, customizable dashboards using OpenLIT. Explore widgets, folder structure, dynamic bindings, and data visualization powered by ClickHouse.
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OpenLIT lets you build real-time, interactive dashboards backed by **ClickHouse**—designed for speed, flexibility, and developer control. Whether you're monitoring system performance, visualizing product analytics, or creating internal tools, OpenLIT makes it easy to create beautiful, custom dashboards with minimal setup.

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## 🔧 What You Can Do

- Create, organize, and manage dashboards across folders and dashboards
- Visualize data using a wide range of **widgets** like:
  - Area, Bar, Line, and Pie Charts
  - Statistics and Tables
  - Markdown blocks for rich text
- Connect to your ClickHouse database with **direct SQL queries**
- Use **dynamic bindings** to build responsive, filterable dashboards
- Pin important dashboards or set a **main dashboard** as your home view

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## 📦 Who It's For

OpenLIT is built for:

- **Engineers** building internal tools or observability dashboards
- **Product teams** tracking key usage and adoption metrics
- **Data analysts** visualizing trends and distributions in real-time
- **Growth teams** monitoring conversions, funnels, and experiments

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You can use the demo instance or connect your own ClickHouse database to get started quickly.
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## 🔜 What’s Next?

In the following guides, you’ll learn how to:

- [Create Your First Folder →](/latest/features/dashboards/create-your-first-folder)  
- [Create Your First Dashboard →](/latest/features/dashboards/create-your-first-dashboard)  
- [Organize your dashboards →](/latest/features/dashboards/organize-your-dashboards)  
- [Pin Your Dashboard →](/latest/features/dashboards/pin-your-dashboard)  
- [Set as Main Dashboard →](/latest/features/dashboards/set-as-main-dashboard)  
- [Widgets →](/latest/features/dashboards/widgets/introduction)  
- [Filters & Dynamic bindings →](/latest/features/dashboards/use-filters-and-dynamic-bindings)
- [Refresh Rate →](/latest/features/dashboards/auto-refresh-and-time-interval)

## Checkout the tutorials:

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Let’s dive in and build your first dashboard →  
